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( guitar music playing )
( music stops )
( music resumes )
News anchor: The situation on the ground is ongoing
while the entire disputed area remains closed
to news organizations.
As last night's report of a series of large explosions
awaits official confirmation,
widespread fear of a biological weapons launch
continues to spread throughout the region.
( speaking Arabic )
Justine, what are you seeing in the capital?
The Foreign Ministry remains shuttered for a second day
as evidence mounts that the insurgents may have used
at least some part of their long-rumored
biological weapons stockpile
in the course of last night's incursion.
News anchor: Have you been able to get any word yet
on the government's response?
- ( guitar music playing ) - Well, it's hard to find
any officials here at all in the capital, Mark.
But those who are willing to speak off the record
confirm the regime's plan for a massive retaliation
in the next five to seven days.
Well, while we are trying to restore that image,
ITL News has just obtained
amateur video footage purporting to show
casualties from last night's exchange of missile fire.
A warning-- this footage contains images
that may be disturbing to some viewers.
Obtained from a junior military officer
fleeing the site of last night's clashes,
it seems to belie assurances from both sides of the conflict
- that no chemical or biological weapons... - Damn it.
...have been deployed.
Such images are horrifying enough,
but there's an even more horrific scenario
if the contagion spreads beyond the region,
potentially infecting tens...
if not hundreds of thousands.
- They're saying-- - Look, I'm...
if you want, I'm just gonna go to the guitar shop.
The pickup fried out, so...
They can't just keep fighting, right?
Female reporter: We are now going live to a press conference
at the Centers for Disease Control.
Man: As of 8:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time,
the CDC has not measured
any airborne contaminants beyond a 100-mile radius
of last night's advance in the Middle East.
What this-- what this means
is the continental United States has not
and will not be affected
by the reported use of these pathogens.
Female reporter #2: Steven, the situation in the larger cities
near the epicenter of the conflict remains tense
as persistent rumors of mass deaths
in scores of towns and villages gain credibility.
At least three regional governments
have begun issuing gas masks...
Male reporter: Rumors abound in the capital
as the prime minister and his cabinet depart the city...
( speaking Arabic )
Translator: This is simply a precaution
in order for us to maintain
government function...
Female reporter #3: Meanwhile, a veritable exodus of refugees
continues to stream across regional borders,
desperately seeking safety from a threat
that remains, perhaps intentionally, undefined.
Male reporter #2: In Washington, the president has issued a statement
urging calm and affirming
that no known pathogen poses any threat...
News anchor: The trade winds are spreading the pathogen
well beyond the conflict's borders,
confirming officials' worst fears about the airborne virus.
Reports of mass casualties as far north as Italy and Portugal
are pending confirmation.
Female reporter #4: What we're apparently seeing here is a virus,
or a complex of viruses, killing some almost immediately,
while leaving others fully mobile.
However, within hours,
nobody in the affected area remains alive.
Stay tuned, please, for further developments
on this breaking news story.
- ( guitar music playing ) - Man: That pickup's all right.
But when I move around-- ( strumming )
--it doesn't have that punch and it's just fading out a lot.
- Clerk: Don't worry... - Man: All right, so...
( strumming guitar ) Okay, cool. Thanks, man.
( faint rumbling, screaming )
He says it's gonna be, like, an hour.
There's something...
- I am so hungry. - Oh.
Woman: I don't even know why we're fighting this thing.
- Man: It was the fucking dishes. - Woman: Yes!
You guys have maids, you know?
So it's not like you see a dirty dish and you're like,
"Hey, here's a dirty dish. I've got to do something about it.
I'm gonna wash this dirty dish."
- You're-- ( laughs ) - What are you-- I mean--
You're totally fixated on this. It's not the dish.
- I'm not even talking about the dish anymore. - It's a metaphor.
- Yeah, it's a metaphor-- - I know what you're gonna say.
- No, you don't. - The dish is a metaphor
for my anxiety about how different we are.
- ( laughing ) - What?
- You did know. - Well, of course I knew.
- So, fuck it. - Just wash the dish.
- Just metaphor the metaphor. - Just address my anxieties with dishwashing liquid.
( chuckles )
We'd miss this if we ever lost it.
We'd be like, "I wish we could go back
to when the worst thing we had to worry about
was the dishes."
Woman #2: Hey.
Oh, my God. You guys, congratulations!
Let me see. Oh, my God.
That is so adorable.
So what's going on with this shit in the news?
( sighs )
- Honestly, I'm not watching it. - Don't know, right?
- Nothing's changed. - Woman: I am going to go to the bathroom.
Oh.
Ahem.
( woman #2 giggling )
( car horns honking )
News anchor: Although state and county authorities
have been almost unanimous in urging residents to remain calm,
a spreading, seemingly spontaneous exodus along the Eastern Seaboard
has caused state highway patrol officials
to shut down six major northbound arteries, piecing together--
( water running )
( distant siren wailing )
( car horns honking )
Traffic's insane out there.
Did you guys eat my food?
I got you this.
( faint sirens wailing )
( dishes clattering )
Anna, why have you been so freaked out lately?
So, what, I'm not allowed to talk to any girl I've ever slept with?
Are you gonna go crazy? Is that it?
( dish clatters )
No, it's the exact opposite.
I think you should talk to all the people you want to--
any girl you've ever met,
whenever they call, whenever they stop by,
whenever you bump into them.
Yeah, I think you should take
as many opportunities as possible to talk to them.
( mutters ) Jesus, Anna.
Because, God, there is so much time, isn't there?
There is so much time between all the dishes lying around,
the fucked-up amps, the fried-out pickups,
your rich grandparents...
and your boring, stupid ex-girlfriends
coming to the "Gates of fucking India"?
You know?
Because between all that,
there's so much time for...
laying in the bathtub...
and reading the soap bottle...
( sniffles )
and looking out together, up at the leaves...
and holding each other,
because we're both so happy
that we're actually scared.
( sniffles )
Because if it really is all over--
Erik, if it was just us,
and there really was nothing left on Earth--
( Erik strumming softly )
What are you doing?
No, Anna, Anna, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
That's the song.
That-- that is the song.
Those are the lyrics to our song.
That's it.
It's gonna be beautiful.
( crying )
Male newscaster: No one is willing to confirm or deny
what we're seeing here.
It clearly isn't benign.
Even at this distance, David, I've got to admit, I'm scared.
Male reporter: We're getting unconfirmed reports of rioting
at dozens of airports as all domestic
and international flights remain grounded.
Male newscaster #2: Hundreds of thousands of people are now running
through the streets here seeking any kind of shelter.
Female reporter: The president and his cabinet have been evacuated
to an undisclosed location
while assuring local authorities...
Female newscaster: ...as yet another American city reports
an almost unbelievable casualty rate...
I, the Lord, have held My peace a long time...
Male reporter #2: Just in the last several minutes, it's really--
oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Female reporter #2: We are no longer receiving reports
from the following cities and municipalities--
Boston and the Boston metropolitan area,
- Bridgeport and the... - Male reporter #3: Philadelphia...
- Male newscaster #3: Baltimore... - "Then the fifth angel
poured out his bowel on the throne of the beast,
and His kingdom became full of darkness
and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain..."
- Woman: Jesus Christ! - Man: Oh, my God.
- Man #2: Oh, my God. - "They shall become refuse on the ground."
( buzzing )
( tone beeping )
( static hissing )
Announcer: The following is a bulletin
from the Emergency Management Agency.
If concentrations in your area have exceeded 80 parts per billion,
you must take immediate shelter and remain where you are
for a minimum of eight days.
State authorities will continue to broadcast hourly updates
as long as emergency networks remain operational.
( birds chirping )
What does that even mean, "parts per billion"?
Per billion what?
Per billion of whatever else was out there, I guess.
It's a beautiful day.
Not a cloud in the sky.
( sighs )
We could read something.
Sure.
( sniffs, exhales )
Remember this?
Oh, that.
That was a moment of weakness.
Well, at least we're not going to get divorced now.
It's so clear out, baby.
The birds up there, they're just flying around.
It's too bad we aren't birds.
I wonder what they're feeling.
Like their favorite TV show got canceled.
( laughs )
I could talk to you for another 20 years.
( scoffs ) Aw, shut up.
I mean it. I was just thinking it the other day.
( sniffles ) I just realized that--
that you're my wife.
It took me practically till just now
to really believe it.
( gas hissing )
( faint rattling )
We're going to have to go to Children's.
- What? - ( groans )
There are no more canisters here.
( breathing heavily )
We're going to have to go to Children's Hospital.
Okay.
( breath hissing )
- Woman: Oh, my God. - Man: Don't look.
Woman: Oh, God. That looks like...
that sweet nurse in Cardiology.
Man: Sarah. Her name was Sarah.
Sarah.
( sniffles )
( praying in Hebrew )
( yelling, wailing )
( monitor beeping )
Sarah? Sarah. Sarah.
- Mr. Sachs, I-- - Wait a minute.
Look, I know you're busy, but I need a favor from you.
It's for my wife. She's in there waiting to see Dr. Henderson.
They took her off life support.
They took her out of ICU. We're just waiting, Sarah.
Well, we have an emergency--
Well, this is an emergency! You understand?!
This is an emergency, Sarah! She's dying!
And the doctor's just taken a three-hour coffee break.
- Mr. Sachs-- - I'm sorry.
I know you're a good person.
Esther and I really think of you
as someone close to us, like you're really family.
Please, I'm begging you. Just come with me.
Help me. Help me get her to ICU. Come on.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that.
We have an emergency-- Mr. Sachs?
- ( groans ) - Mr. Sachs!
Jacob! Get me an oxygen unit.
Jacob, get me an oxygen unit, now.
Yes, right.
( gasping )
Sarah: Mr. Sachs? Lift your head up for me.
( wheezing, coughing )
Try to breathe normally.
- Okay? - Yeah.
- I've gotta go. - Wait, wait.
Listen to me.
It's a biological attack.
- Isn't it? - They don't know.
People can't breathe--
old people...
kids...
animals are okay.
We only have about three hours--
( inhales deeply )
It has to do with how much material is in the air.
And winds and...
if it gets up to more than 35 parts per billion,
you're going to need one of these to survive, Sarah.
Now listen to me. Listen. You got to get one.
Not a charcoal filter. Pure oxygen.
You'll be able to last eight days. Okay?
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Good luck.
- ( inhales deeply ) - Woman: Nurse!
I have to go!
( oxygen hissing )
"Connect me to something.
Give me something," I said. You know?
"Give me something, Counsel.
Give me something that connects my client eating baba ghanoush
at some streetside cafe
somewhere in...
do we even know where this was taken, Tracy?"
And then Tracy said...
And then I said, "No, the prosecution just gave us Exhibit 345,
defendants Hightower, Esselen, and Sachs
and 'unidentified man.' 1979."
"So, please. Help me out here,"
I said, looking sort of baffled.
"Give me whatever it is you're hanging your case on
so that I can defend my client.
But don't keep giving me
exhibit after exhibit,
so-called 'fact' after so-called 'fact'
that doesn't add up to A-- trade secrets,
B-- any of your employees actually compromising
your trade secrets, or C--
any material damages done to your company's overseas interests,
because if opposing counsel doesn't or can't,
or for whatever reason, they won't...
Your Honor, I respectfully request
that you dismiss the case against my client."
And the judge dismissed it.
( footsteps approaching, knock on door )
Woman: You guys? We're...
we're evacuating the building.
Reporter: ...the news, then a proliferation
of rumors and hearsay, and then almost street by street...
Man on recording: Hey, man. Leave a message and I'll get back to you.
( beeps )
Hey, man. I'm leaving a message, dude.
Did you-- if you're watching TV,
- there's a... - ( people screaming )
anyway, turn on the TV.
It has something to do with the war.
We're supposed to...
( sighs )
Reporter: ...conflicting reports of trade winds...
So, um...
meet me back at the house.
And...
please change your outgoing message, though, baby.
Seriously.
Reporter: ...but efforts to keep citizens calm
and encourage them to maintain their normal...
- ( phone buzzing ) - Man: I'm gonna take you left, then right--
- Ah! - Man #2: Busted!
- ( buzzing ) - ...surprise myself!
Ah! Take it back right here.
And then I'm gonna score again.
( both laughing )
Perfect defense.
Oh, yeah! That's game, baby!
- No, no, no. - That's game.
No. ( panting )
Okay, so here's the deal.
If I sink this, right here,
you let me pay you back.
You don't owe me anything, man.
You see, that's exactly the kind of talk
that won't be allowed if I make this shot.
What happens if you miss?
Uh...
You know, this is really gonna determine my inner morality.
If I miss, then you never have to hear about it again.
How's that? Okay?
Borrowed your Jeep, fucked up the transmission, we're square.
But if I make it, you accept the cash.
( sighs )
All right, I'll trust your subconscious.
You hear that, Rick's subconscious?
You don't really want him to make this shot, do ya?
- ( chuckles ) - Make him miss.
You're just-- you're gonna stand right there?
You never said anything about where I could stand.
- Okay. Okay. - Oh, I'm sorry.
It doesn't really matter. That doesn't bother me.
- 'Cause you know why? - Why?
'Cause I got it like that.
( laughing )
Man #2: I give up.
( elevator bell dings )
Nice work on the Sachs case.
Thanks.
Where are you going?
Home.
That's it?
That's it.
( sighs ) Whatever.
( sighs )
Let's not end this on a bad note.
You're a wonderful guy,
and who knows what would have happened
if we had met before.
But it was never a question.
There was in my mind.
I'm sorry.
( sighs )
It's the end of the world.
If it really is the end of the world, how funny, you know?
For once, it really would be when it feels that way.
- How romantic. - ( elevator bell dings )
- ( car engines start ) - ( car remote chirps )
Woman on phone: Anyway, turn on the TV.
It has something to do with the war.
Meet me back at the house
and please change your outgoing message, though, baby.
- Come on, come on. Let's go. - Seriously.
I'm starting to tighten up a little bit.
Let's go.
What?
She told me to turn on the TV.
- She wants me to meet her at home. - Now?
Yeah.
- So you're--? - Sorry, man.
You know what, man? You are so fuckin' whipped.
Hey, I canceled a lot of shit for this
so we can just hang out.
Yeah? Like what?
Coffee at Saga?
Tarot card reading?
- Yeah. - I'll see you on Thursday.
- You gotta be kiddin' me. - I'll see you Thursday, man.
Yeah, fuck you, motherfucker.
- Thursday. - If you're lucky.
( distant siren wailing )
God damn it.
Erik: Hey.
I finished the song.
I have an idea.
Why don't we take a nap,
just forget about everything?
- ( distant siren wails ) - Listen to this.
"The souls of all my dears
have flown to the stars.
Thank God there's no one left for me to lose."
Hm.
You know what your grandmother said to me?
Mm.
She said...
that "the only important language
spoken in the world
is spoken between
a man and a woman.
In bed."
( chuckles )
I don't know. Maybe you want to watch the news?
- Nuh-uh. - Or write some more poetry?
No.
You know what? We should probably get up and do the dishes.
No, I don't think so.
( giggling )
( faint ringing )
( Anna moans )
( ringing stops )
( couple grunting softly )
And so, finally--
eight years later or whatever--
at some New Year's Eve party,
Grandpa finally got up the courage and he kissed her.
At least, that's how my mom used to tell it.
( engine stops )
They're gonna love you. Seriously.
Don't worry about it.
I'm not worried, baby.
( door closes )
( distant bird cooing )
( knocking on door )
- Hello! - Anna: Hi!
- Hello! - Hi!
I'm so glad to meet you.
I'm so happy to meet you, too.
Yes! Goodness! Ooh!
- ( Anna chuckles ) - Someone did very well. This is a beautiful ring.
- Erik: That's right. - Anna: He did very great.
How are you, sweetheart?
Men are so much like kids, it's silly.
I mean, there's the guitar
and there's the garden
and there's basketball and football--
it's a wonder they have any time at all
to devote themselves
to other responsibilities for family.
But they do. They do.
- Yeah. - Bless 'em.
You know.
I'm gonna have to sit down, I think.
- I just got a little pooped. - Yeah, sure.
What you've gotta watch, of course, is when you breed something
more and more specialized,
it can only survive under very narrow
and specific conditions.
- ( groans ) - Erik: Here.
Thank you.
- Got something for you. - No, Grandpa, I'm fine.
- No, no, no. - I'm fine.
No, no, you can't refuse me.
You just can't. I'm not gonna take no for an answer,
- so you might as well just stop. - Okay.
And I wanna tell you something--
man to man, okay?
No matter how much a woman may tell you
that she's happy to support you,
that she's not interested in material things,
she wants you to be free--
sooner or later, they all want the good things in life.
- I know, I know. But Anna isn't like that. - Well, I'm sure she's not.
I'm not telling you that she's shallow.
Probably is the most natural, basic instinct in a woman--
actually, any human being-- make a home,
make a nest.
You know, I'm playing a show at this thing.
It's called "South by Southwest."
And you know there's a lot of...
record company people, and managers go.
That's wonderful.
- I can make a living playing music. - I'm sure you can.
And I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Don't let anybody pressure you, huh?
Just take your time.
If there's anything ever I can do to help you,
you know I'm here.
So funny-- I was just thinking this morning
that, God, I have turned into such a typical "girl."
( chuckles ) I never thought it would happen to me,
but I-- oh, God--
I am completely obsessed with him.
Beyond obsessed with him.
I mean, even when I'm angry or jealous
or, I don't know-- maybe that's the same thing--
but he leaves for an hour and I can't stand it.
I don't know what to do with myself.
I feel kind of crazy and--
( sighs ) that can't be healthy.
Well, I'm not sure it's healthy,
but it is the way it is.
- Yeah. - Anna: Yeah?
And I'll tell you something else.
You'd be someplace-- at a party
or a friend's house or something--
and he'll be over there talking to somebody.
And you see his face.
And you think,
"He and I are going to make some beautiful babies."
- Cheers. - Cheers.
( cups clink )
You know what? I don't think I can take this.
No, no. I told you I'm not taking no for an answer.
- No, Grandpa, I can't. - Oh, Erik, come on. I got it, you need it.
- What's the difference? - I always appreciate--
I am not taking it back. That's final.
( rips )
- I'm sorry. - Idiot.
You're too good for my dirty money?
You think there wouldn't be such a thing as war if it wasn't for me?
I got news for you, kid. There are worse sinners on this earth
- than your grandfather. - No, no, no. I don't--
Wait till you have a child!
Wait till you have a sick child!
Then you'll lecture me.
Attorney: And if you have any trouble at all remembering
or if you aren't sure of your answer,
just say, "I don't remember,"
or, "I don't have any specific recollection."
Now, that last one actually covers quite a lot.
If, for instance, you "sort of" think you might remember something,
but it's possible that you aren't remembering it clearly,
it's never perjury to say, "I don't have any specific recollection."
They were developing a pathogen.
I know, Mr. Sachs.
But the prosecution won't be asking about that tonight.
It wasn't even my division.
I offered advice to my clients
on pharmaceutical lines.
Okay.
We have about 15 minutes
until opening statements.
They just offered me so much money.
So much. Millions.
Okay. Mr. Sachs, look at me.
This trial is not
about how certain governments
got a hold of certain weapons
or formulas for weapons
over 30 years ago.
This trial deals with the very narrow issue
of whether or not you violated your contract
with Sichel Systems by revealing trade secrets,
and you didn't do that.
You didn't break the terms of your contract.
You're innocent.
Have you had a child?
- No. - You can't watch them die.
She lived another 15 years
and she gave us our grandson, Erik.
But the prosecution doesn't need to know that, do they?
I took it.
I took the money.
I knew it was wrong, but I took it.
My wife is living in denial,
but I know it's my fault.
I deserve to be punished.
We really need to leave, Mr. Sachs.
Esther: Oh, my God.
Oh-- it's too far.
Sachs: We'll get there, we'll get there.
Hold on. If we can find some more canisters up there,
it's gonna get us eight days of air,
and the poison will be gone.
( Esther sighs )
To think I was so scared
about having that operation.
And Dr. Henderson died--
Esther, if you're going to go through
all the ironies of the situation,
we're going to be talking another 20 years. You know that?
I won't say a word. I don't ever want to say anything.
What? What did you say?
Excuse me?
You don't want to say anything?
Huh? You don't wanna say anything...
about my pants?
Something about my pants?
They're too high. ( chuckles )
Okay, here we go.
Sarah: Have you been looking for a job?
Man: Yeah, I've been looking for a job.
I print out another 175,000 resumes,
I change my profile on another million job sites.
- I mean, the thing is-- - I even call Human Resources.
I swear to God, I feel like "Willy Loman." I said...
( sighs )
"If anything comes up, do me a favor.
Keep my number. Give me a call."
I mean, you were getting plenty of work
when you were putting her through law school.
Yeah. People used to hire writers.
You can get any job you want.
Yeah. One more job.
Pay some bills.
Buy some stuff, get another job,
pay some more bills, buy some more stuff--
Yeah, but it's that or what?
Play basketball with your buddies all day
and let Mia buy your shirts?
You know what's interesting to me, is that why--
instead of printing a bunch of resumes,
why we all don't just stop
in the middle of the street and say...
"What the hell is going on here?
What is this all about?"
I mean, why am I here on this earth, you know?
- Oh, Len-- - No, I mean it. I mean it.
Why does the universe expand for eternity?
Wh-why-- ( stammers )
how much longer am I gonna live?
Why am I the only animal that knows it's gonna die?
We all asked ourselves those questions
when we were, like, eight.
Yeah, but why did we stop asking, you know?
'Cause I never got any answers.
( distant phone ringing )
Is this about the war?
( sighs )
This is about what I'm supposed to be doing with my life.
I just don't know what I'm supposed to tell Dad.
Oh, God, Sarah. Tell him I'm happy.
I mean, you tell me-- X-ray vision--
am I horribly depressed?
Len: You know what I just realized the other day?
We're at some party at Mia's office
and we'd just gotten in some stupid fight
and we're outside in the parking lot.
And I just realized that...
she's my wife.
And I love her.
I mean, I really love her.
She married me...
so I can't really be that depressed, can I?
God.
I hope I meet someone like you someday.
- Except with a job. - Except with a job.
( chuckles )
( engine knocking )
( engine stops )
Come on.
( key rattling )
( engine sputters )
- ( rattling ) - Come on!
( distant siren whines )
( mutters ) Fuck.
Shit.
( car horns honking )
( honking continues )
( ringing )
( tires screeching, sharp thump )
( faint ringing )
Mia? Sarah, what the fuck is going on?
Listen-- they're not telling the whole story on the news.
Well, I haven't seen the news. What's going on?
Just ignore what everybody's saying.
You have to get back to the house.
Get out your dehumidifiers and ionizers--
anything you have that filters air--
and seal yourself into the basement.
( panting ) What-- what is it? Is this the war?
Just listen. Remember how we put
Mom's oxygen tanks up in the attic?
Yeah. I got rid of those months ago, Sarah.
( sighs ) Damn.
Well, just stay down there as long as you can.
Len: I'm starting to freak out here, Sarah.
What's going on? How do you know all this?
Because I-- I met someone who knows about this,
- and I-- - Hey, Sarah?
Sarah, listen to me, okay?
What the fuck? Hold on a second.
I gotta give you a call back, okay? I'm gonna call you back.
- Len: Stay safe. - ( handset clatters )
Recording: Attention, please.
There has been an emergency reported in the building.
- ( Sarah moans ) - Leave the building immediately
using marked stairways and exits.
Do not use elevators.
Hey, buddy.
Do you know where your mommy and daddy are?
You okay?
Recording: ...using marked stairways and exits.
Do not use elevators.
( sighs )
- ( groans ) - Attention, please. Attention, please.
There has been an emergency reported in the building.
Leave the building immediately
using marked stairways...
It hurts. ( sobs )
What hurts?
My tummy.
Where does it hurt? Hmm?
It-- ( gulps )
Okay, okay, buddy. Okay.
- ( distant siren wails ) - Uh...
we're gonna...
Man: What the fuck are you doing?
- Len: Hey-- - Get the fuck away from my boy!
Hey, man, it's okay. Your kid is not doing--
hey, whoa!
Hey, hey-- hey, listen!
Jesus Christ! Hey, listen, man!
- Len: Listen! - Fuck you--
- Daddy! - Damn it! Listen!
( grunting )
Listen!
Jesus Christ, man! Stop!
Listen to me.
Take care of your son!
( distant police sirens wailing )
( distant sirens whining )
- ( music playing ) - ( laughter )
Hey, do you have any Goldfish?
- Girl: Um... - Anna: Yes, Goldfish.
Maybe up there.
Thanks.
Uh...? ( laughing )
Anna: Wow.
Do you think that they
stuffed everything up like that for the party?
No, I think that is just how they keep their things.
- Erik: You know what's weird about that? - Anna: What?
- Oh, shh-- Oreos. - ( Anna gasps )
- Look at this. - Anna: Mmm.
- Mmm. - Mmm, mmm.
( laughing )
- Yummy, yummy. - ( laughing )
What's...
- what's weird? - Huh?
- What's weird about it? - What's weird, what's weird.
- You said-- - It was...
I don't know. It's just weird--
ever since we got engaged,
there's suddenly like all these--
I don't know, these waves that we--
No. I know exactly what you mean.
There's, like, a right way
and a wrong way of doing everything, and we're, like--
You know why? It's 'cause we're, like,
we are like, the Anna and Erik tribe.
You know?
And I mean there's something terribly wrong
about putting the-- look, the cat food next to the tea.
Yeah, but for the Jprobably the way Henry we stack things
and put things together really neatly
seems completely insane and constricting.
- Right? - Yeah, yeah.
I mean it already feels so wrong
to do it any other way than the way we do it.
Right, but that is how it begins, you know?
That is why countries invade each other--
'cause of that.
( giggling )
"You don't put the tea in the right place."
Yeah? Fuck you! Fuck you, you're the bad guys.
You have no idea how to do it, and we're better.
"You know what? The green tea goes on the top shelf
next to the cocoa, fuckwad, or I'm gonna kill you."
( laughing ) The beginning of civilization.
I'm sorry. I have got to move this.
No, I mean, it so doesn't belong there.
There is something immoral about it.
We'd be hypocrites if we fail that.
Future generations will thank us.
The products of this apartment will cry out for liberation.
It will be a beacon of proper shelf arrangement
- for the entire region. - ( clattering )
( giggling )
Oh, my God. So good.
Anna: I can't find the Goldfish.
( giggling )
He was up there. God.
( music fades )
( faint screaming )
( car horns honking )
( wind rustling )
( birds chirping )
( crows cawing )
I hear you.
( faint echo )
( wind rustling, birds chirping )
( chirping continues )
( wings fluttering )
( rustling, crunching )
( birds chirping )
( footsteps approaching )
Hi.
- Was I talking to myself? - No.
I've been feeling so weird these past few days.
You know...
I see stuff.
Out of the corner of my eye sometimes.
I don't even tell my boyfriend--
my fiancé.
And these past few days, I...
I mean literally,
last night, for a second,
it was like there was nobody left anywhere...
...except animals.
Running down the middle of the street.
( sniffles )
God, and Erik was like,
"What?
What are you staring at?"
You didn't say?
They say schizophrenia starts
when you're, like,
19 to 25.
Rick: You hear voices?
Well, I just heard a bunch of crows
screaming "War! War!"
( chuckles ) Well, they aren't telling you
to jump off any high buildings, right?
No.
Good.
My name is Rick.
I'm Anna.
I've considered
the high building option.
But life is so absurdly short, anyway.
Yeah, I've been thinking that.
Makes you only want to do the important things.
But what are the important things?
I'm pregnant.
First time I've told anybody.
- Woman: Greyhound. - Erik: You got it.
Vodka and grapefruit.
Erik: Here you go.
Thank you.
You don't know what a Greyhound is?
Hey, who got us this job?
So, anyway, all I'm saying
is marriage is just
all of these artificial restrictions.
It's like going on some radical diet
when you're not even fat.
All I'm saying is, yes,
agreed, congratulations
Anna is hot. She's incredibly hot.
And, granted, you're probably not going to meet anybody
who's that hot and whatever cool
and interesting and wonderful.
Mia: I don't know what you're talking about.
You're making a scene.
Well, what is he looking at, then?
Right now he's looking at you.
Having dragged me across the room and yelling at me
- in front of all my coworkers-- - I'm not yelling at you.
Can I get a vodka and tonic?
Brilliant, that's exactly right.
- Yeah. - Fucking more alcohol
because that's really going to help.
Thank you.
See? He probably thought he was marrying
the most magical, beautiful girl on earth.
It's up to you, man. I'm just saying
you could be dealing with that kind of shit
for the rest of your life.
Or I could spend the rest of my life saying,
"I met the one true love of my life
when I was 22 years old and I was too scared
- to ask her to marry me." - If she is the one true love of your life.
I mean, there are billions of people.
( voices overlapping )
No, she's--
she's the one true love of my life.
( chuckles softly ) Okay.
So you have the rest of your life
to ask her to marry you.
( mutters ) Fuck.
( exhales sharply )
It happens every time.
I get dressed up to come to a thing like this,
and it's a fucking disaster.
( sniffles )
( faint buoy bells ringing )
Len,
none of these people matter to me.
None of these people mean anything to me
except you.
( sighs ) Let's get out of here.
( both panting )
Len: Ah, fuck.
( sighs sharply )
Oh, God I need water.
Water.
( mutters ) Done.
What's this?
I got it at the museum.
( bottle lid clanking )
It's a trilobite.
It's probably like 300 million years old.
And now they just give them away with a $50 membership.
( laughs )
There used to be billions of 'em.
They must have had a lot of sex.
They couldn't help themselves.
( laughs )
They were in love.
Or it was just instinct.
( laughs )
Same thing, I guess.
I'd have babies with you.
I mean, not right away, but...
we should, you know?
( sighs deeply )
( scoffs )
What?
I never said never.
I said, "Don't marry me if you want to have children."
- ( laughs ) - But you would?
I could.
Yeah, I would.
We should.
- Mia: Right? - Len: Right.
Think of how beautiful it would be.
"It"? She. She.
Okay. We will.
You promise?
Not right away.
But someday.
Promise.
( key chain rattling )
( police siren wailing )
( key rattling )
Mia?!
( rapid thumping )
Mia: There you go.
( both sigh )
- ( door bangs ) - ( sirens continue )
Len: It's okay.
( car door closes, faint tires screeching )
Come here.
So we need to--
I need you to get everything out of the kitchen
that you can, okay? I need you to just get everything that you can.
Okay? I'm going to go upstairs and get some blankets.
Okay?
Gonna bring it down to the basement.
Okay? Yeah?
Sure.
Okay.
Announcer: The following message is transmitted
at the request of the United States government.
This is not a test. All residents of the United States
are strongly encouraged to establish--
Len: Gonna need some more tape.
We've gotta seal all the windows up here,
we've gotta seal the door.
Mia: Does creme soda count as water?
What?
- ( cracking ) - ( Mia yelps )
- Len: Come on, sweetheart. - I'll just get that, okay?
Let's get everything downstairs.
It's all diet food.
It's all fucking...
low carb crap.
All of it.
It's okay, sweetheart.
Hey, look--
I have a chocolate bar in my pocket, okay?
With almonds, okay?
Go back downstairs.
Okay?
Go back downstairs.
- Come on, sweetie. - Okay, okay, okay.
Len: I got it.
Do you need this tape?
- Len: Nope. - Okay.
Mia: Did you call Sarah?
( sighs ) Mm-hmm.
You okay down there, sweetheart?
( Sachs grunting )
( grunting )
Ooh.
Andy, it's...
it's time to stop.
I thought you didn't want to talk anymore.
( groans )
Esther: I just don't want to sit here
watching you kill yourself.
Sachs: We'll get there.
You see? If we can just make it up there,
we're gonna find some more canisters, I know it.
Stop that, Esther. Stop it, come on.
Take your hand-- ( grunts )
- ( Esther moans ) - Sachs: --Take your hand off the wheel.
( Esther grunts )
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, but look.
I've gotta--
we can't afford the energy it takes
to fight like this. ( moans )
I wish-- I wish you would put
more energy into finding solutions.
There are no solutions, honey.
The news broadcasts have stopped,
and...
everybody that we love is dead.
Listen to me.
Everyone I love is not dead.
The only person on earth that I love
is still alive.
Oh, you're such a charmer.
You could charm the knickers off of any girl.
Well, there's no girls left
but my girl.
( sniffles )
Okay.
Here we go. ( grunts )
( plane engines whining )
Anna: I can't stand how much I miss you when I'm gone.
Erik: I know.
Anna: Oh-- so, I got a new book
that I really want to read to you.
Erik: Okay.
Anna: Wait, I don't know which one to read to you.
Anna: Wow, that song is really good.
- Erik: Yeah, you know, I-- - Anna: Let me just read you one.
What-- you don't have to stop.
- ( laughs ) - I know, I know.
I mean, I just, I just--
I just wanted to show you something.
In the park. I want your opinion
on something that they're building across the river.
Uh, what, before we go home?
Yeah, yeah.
It's just been bugging me. I pass it every day on my run,
you know.
Right.
So do you want to look at it?
Uh, sure.
You don't want to hear this?
No, no. Read it to me, read it to me.
Ahem.
"At the red towers of your native Sodom,
the square where once you sang,
the spinning shed, at the empty windows
set into the house,
where sons and daughters blessed your marriage bed.
A single glance, a sudden dart of pain
stitching her eyes before she made a sound.
Her body flaked into transparent salt.
Her swift legs rooted to the ground."
Right?
That's-- that's incredible.
- You're so distracted. - No, I'm not. I liked it.
No, you have no idea what I just read to you.
Not no idea. Come on.
Hey. "Dilute."
( straining ) "Dilute. Dilute!"
Dilute. Okay.
Come on. Let's go see your weird-ass building.
( Anna laughs )
( ship horn blowing )
Erik: Okay. Uh...
this looks right.
See that...
that big red building with the arches? It's that.
- Anna: Oh. - Right next to it with the...
The water tower, just right under that,
there's like this cluster of red buildings.
Anna: That red garage- looking thing?
- Erik: Yeah. - I can't really see it.
- Anna: Is it next to the-- - Erik: Yeah.
What am I looking at?
( shuddering )
Hey!
I have to give this to you now.
Oh, my God.
What does that mean? What does that...
is that a "yes"?
You have to say yes if you're gonna--
( sobs )
- You still need to say "yes." - ( Anna laughs )
I love you.
I love you so much.
- ( Anna laughing ) - Erik: Say yes. You need to say yes.
Please.
Anna: Look at you.
♪ You love me... ( giggles )
( grunts )
Esther: Well, what do you think of our news?
- What news? - Our news.
Erik and Anna.
Oh, that's fine. ( grunts )
Oh, honey. You don't dislike Anna, do you?
I think she's wonderful and I just love her.
I'm just so happy about this.
I like her fine. ( grunts )
You know I offered him some money and he wouldn't take it?
Oh, well, he's getting married.
You know, he's going to be the big macho man now.
Head of the family. He'll probably never take money from us again.
Well, I bet if I made it in real estate
or cattle ranching, he'd take it.
- ( Esther chuckles ) - What are you laughing at?
Nothing-- well, yes, I am.
I'm thinking of you
standing in the middle of a herd of cows.
Very funny.
( bangs jar )
- Honey, don't do that. - ( smashes )
Oh! Oh, shit.
God damn it.
- Did you cut yourself? - No.
Just leave it. I'll get it later.
Come on over here, my darling man,
and talk to me.
What's the matter?
Tell me what's really troubling you.
( sighs )
I took their money.
They wouldn't have paid me so much
if they weren't gonna use my knowledge.
Oh, no. You weren't working for them.
You were just working at their laboratory.
They wanted great scientists to work at their laboratory.
It gives them prestige.
I knew they were working on pathogens.
They were just picking my brain.
All I could think about was Liza.
Listen.
That money...
gave Liza 15 more years of life.
It gave her Erik.
What if they use it, Esther?
What if they use it
and everybody dies?
Well, I think you're going completely crazy.
I really do, you know.
You are not to blame for everything in this world,
no matter how smart you are.
And I'll tell you something else.
I'm taking a little offense at this.
I didn't marry a murderer.
I married the kindest,
gentlest,
most loving man
in the world.
I don't think you ever knew
just how much I love you.
I swear, it--
- Esther? - Ow--!
- What is it, honey? - Ow!
- Come on, Esther. Come on. Come. - Oh. No.
- Come on, come with me. - I'm fine. I just got excited.
Come on, come on. Let me take you.
I'll take you upstairs. Okay, come on.
- One, two, three. - ( Esther grunts )
- Here we go. - Oh...!
- ( panting ) - Come on.
Come on.
I'm okay, really.
Len: Well, whatever it is, seven or eight days.
When we're done with the water--
and there's tangerine juice, too.
When we're done with everything,
then we go up.
Even though the radio said eight days.
Maybe we ought to make it seven.
But what the fuck do they know, you know?
Air could be clear at six.
Clear enough, anyway, for me to go up
and get supplies and come back down here.
- Len: What? - The last thing they said was...
"200 million dead in Europe."
So that's not everybody.
Nothing's gonna be left, Len.
We don't know that until we see.
Len, nothing's left.
The radio stopped.
( sighs )
There's no more planes or helicopters.
When's the last time you heard anything other than birds?
We'll stay down here three more days.
- And then... - ( Mia sobs )
- we'll drive to the marina. - No.
( sighs ) We'll get a boat.
We'll go out on the lake.
- ( sighs ) - And we'll keep going until we find someone.
- I don't-- - What?
I don't wanna...
wade through a bunch of corpses
to go steal a boat
to go look at more corpses lying on a bunch of docks.
( sobs )
Even-- ( sniffles )
even if we did make it, Len,
what are we supposed to do?
Do you really want to play "Adam and Eve"?
Build it all back up so it all just gets destroyed again?
Maybe people will learn.
( Mia sniffling )
It's like that guy who hit you for trying to take care of his kid.
It's like that guy I defended-- great guy,
good father, always showing me pictures of his grandson--
who helped invent the shit that killed everyone.
People aren't going to learn.
It's something in us.
It's something in the way that we're made.
Then at least...
we'll have more time.
At least we'll go out on the water together.
We'll find a boat with a nice, big cabin.
Come on.
( sighs )
Len?
That guy, Jay, from the law firm?
He fell in love with me.
I never did anything.
I never let him touch me.
( sniffles ) But I...
you know, I--
I made him think, I guess...
that he had a shot at it.
- Why? - It was just a way to--
Just a way to pass the time?
--to feel better about myself, I guess.
Why do you need to feel better about yourself?
Mia: It wasn't about you.
( sobs )
It was just my curse.
Len.
Why are they gonna stay down here
like caged animals?
Or we're gonna go upstairs tomorrow...
and lie down on the grass.
Breathe in...
and die...
when and where we choose.
We'll eat the chocolate bar before we do it, okay?
Mia: Okay?
( playing softly )
( Anna giggling )
- Oh, my God. - What? What?
Did you buy this weird soap?
What?
Anna: I seriously think I've found my new religion.
( Erik chuckles ) Oh, yeah, that stuff.
Wait, have you read this?
No. I mean, the writing's so tiny--
Wait a minute. Listen to this.
"Einstein, 1939.
After Nazis and Commies united,
proposes 'space bombs'
that destroys all
unless we finally teach the moral ABCs
the real Rabbi Hillel taught Jesus
to unite all in, all one, God faith."
( sighs )
( latch clicks )
( oxygen hissing )
( hissing stops )
Did you find a pay phone?
( coughs )
I got some noodles.
Just gotta add water.
And some drinks.
And there's these things--
energy bars.
And napkins.
I couldn't find a pay phone. I don't think they make them anymore.
What is this doing on a soap bottle?
And where did you get this?
I mean, it was at the health food store.
- It was cheap. - "We're all one or none.
There is no god but God.
Teach 'Love thy enemy.'
One Israel-Moses- Buddha-Jesus-Mohammed.
- One! All one!" - All one!
"Dilute! Dilute! Okay!" ( giggling )
How about the switchboard?
The hospital switchboard.
Or all of these houses and apartments around here.
They've all got to have phones.
Esther...
he's gone.
- Erik's gone. - ( Anna giggling )
Oh, look at this. Read this.
"For on God's spaceship, Earth"--
( together ) "With bomb and gun,
we're all one or none.
All one, all one, all one!
Exceptions eternally? Absolutely none!"
"Absolutely none." ( laughs )
Oh, my God.
Why is the most inspiring thing that I've ever read
sitting on a soap bottle?
"Dilute."
( together ) "Dilute! Dilute!"
"Dilute! Okay."
( laughing )
- You don't know that. - It's just the way it is.
Because he could be with any of his friends.
That's just it, honey.
You don't know it for sure. You don't--
( sobbing )
No! No!
- Oh, oop! - ( Anna giggling )
No... ( sobbing )
( laughing )
Esther: Oh, God, no.
Shh...
( moaning )
( rustling )
( rapid footsteps pattering )
( siren wails )
Man: Okay, people. We're closing down shop in two minutes.
You've got two minutes to get your purchases up to the counter.
Okay?
- That's it, man. We gotta go. - Cashier: Come on.
250. Let's go.
- Come on. - Yeah.
Um... fuck.
Man: Hey. We're done, man. Let's go.
I-I gave all my money to-- here, just run this.
Yeah, okay, buddy. That's it. We're outta here.
You're closing up shop. Just-- just--
you're not selling any more of these anyway, right?
Don't be stupid, man. We ain't giving them away, either.
I understand that. Just take this. Here.
That's all I got. It's all I got.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get the fuck out now.
( sirens wailing )
- Hey. - Hey! Put down the kit!
It's the end of the world, okay? Just let me walk out of here with a chance.
- Put down the kit. - ( gun hammer clicks )
What? The last thing you wanna do on earth is shoot me?
This is how this shit started, anyway.
Right? That's how it started in the first--
( gunshot pops )
- Sachs: You ready? - I'm fine.
Good. If you're fine, the tests are gonna show it.
Anyway-- ( groans )
we haven't seen Dr. Henderson for a long time.
- Come here. - That's right.
And here I was, trying to cheer you up.
Oh, yeah.
Sachs: You remember when we lived in Washington,
the Georgetown apartment?
Esther: Yes, I do.
We both got the flu at the same time.
Yeah. And I took care of you first.
I ran out in the freezing cold,
went and got you a nice, big bowl of hot soup.
- Esther: It was so cold. - Yeah.
And I wrapped you up all nice and cozy in a blanket.
Remember?
Then I turned the thermostat up as high as it would go.
Esther: Then it was my turn to baby you.
- ( Sachs chuckles ) - Tucked you in real tight,
And I made you some of those awful poached eggs you like.
Mm-hmm.
It's been a good life.
Yeah, I think so.
Sachs: A good life.
( silent )
Oh, I forgot to tell you.
What?
The best thing in the world.
( Anna, Erik moaning )
( moaning continues )
I have something to tell you.
( faintly ) What...?
The best thing in the world.
We're going to have a baby.
We don't have to do this.
( sighs ) Whatever we said last night,
we don't have to do it.
Not today, anyway.
Mmm, mmm.
I regret every fucking diet I ever went on.
( chuckles )
Mmm.
Come on.
Let's get out of here.
Ahem.
( gasps )
If you have to,
if that's what you have to do...
go, but I won't.
I--
I don't think we're gonna run out of food.
I don't think we're gonna run out of water.
I think that if we just stay down here another couple of days--
- No. - if we go up then, we're gonna be fine.
- Mm-mm. - Okay?
- No. - Yeah.
Yes!
( sobs )
Yes.
( sobs )
Mia! Don't leave me!
Don't leave me. Stay with me.
I love you, baby, I love you. I need you.
I need you, I need you. I need you, I need you-- stay!
Please stay!
Please, I need you. Please?
( sobbing )
( rustling )
( bird chirping )
Girl: Mama, look what I found.
( instrumental music playing )
( guitar music playing )
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